Sentences with phrase «kilometer stretch in»

For example, in 1995, internal waves took an average of 200 hours to travel a 2,400 kilometer stretch in the Atlantic Ocean, but by 2015 they had sped up to take an average of 198 hours, which Zhao says indicates warming.

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The exercises are taking place off the coast of Quanzhou in the Taiwan Strait, a 110 mile (180 kilometer) stretch of water seperating the self - ruled island from mainland China.

Located in western Mexico, the Pacific coast region stretches across 1,700 kilometers (1,054 miles) of beaches, mountains and valleys, spanning from the state of Sinaloa to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in the state of Oaxaca.

In a secluded stretch of desert about 300 kilometers south of Cairo, hundreds of bodies lie buried in the sanIn a secluded stretch of desert about 300 kilometers south of Cairo, hundreds of bodies lie buried in the sanin the sand.

Even with a generous assumption that all Himalayan glacial melting since 1962 (roughly 13.4 cubic kilometers per year) was concentrated in the 150 - kilometer stretch of land closest to the study zone rather than spread across the entirety of the Himalayas, the scientists could explain, at most, 15 percent of the water loss in northwestern India.

Based on the vocalizations, they estimated there were as many as 1.5 million fish in a 17 - mile (27 - kilometer) stretch of river channel during one peak spawning day.

The minimum average microplastics pollution was found in the stretch between Basel and Mainz (202,900 particles per square kilometer), a medium average at Bad Honnef, Köln - Porz and Leverkusen (714,053) and the highest average in the Rhine - Ruhr metropolitan area (2,333,665).

The Hamoun wetlands, which once encompassed as much as 5800 square kilometers along Iran's border with Afghanistan and supported settlements stretching back 5 millennia, «are an ecological catastrophe,» says Nayyereh Pourmollae, who heads the environment department of Sistan and Baluchestan province in southeastern Iran.

The only signs of the pipe are a gap in the trees that stretches for kilometers, a tiny yellow marker that says «Warning: Carbon Dioxide Pipeline,» and a little shack that houses the pumps that keep the CO2 moving underground and pressurized.

A «strewn field» emerged: a stretch of desert roughly 10 kilometers long and a few kilometers wide strewn with pieces that fell as Black Beauty broke up in the final moments of its descent.

But in Haiti itself, his on - site survey revealed that the waves may have reached as high as three meters — and that several meter - high waves struck along a 100 - kilometer stretch of shoreline, all the way into the neighboring Dominican Republic.

Before 1750, most Americans found a spouse within six miles (10 kilometers) of where they were born, but for those born in 1950, that distance had stretched to about 60 miles (100 kilometers), the researchers found.

BREAK UP Last year a crack stretching tens of kilometers rapidly spread across Larsen C, shown here in 2009, one of the largest ice shelves in Antarctica.

Abigail Allwood of Macquarie University and her colleagues studied a 10 - kilometer stretch of rock in Australia's Pilbara region identified nearly 30 years ago as the remnants of stromatolites.

In general, the Chinese object to the U.S. Navy conducting research activities within China's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), which stretches some 320 kilometers off its coastline.

With trains allowed to run in excess of 320 kilometers per hour on some stretches, state officials estimate a trip between Los Angeles and San Francisco could take as little as two and a half hours.

The far ultraviolet images revealed that the front edges of the shimmering auroral curtains, which can stretch 1000 kilometers tall on Saturn, raced across the planet's surface at more than 4 kilometers per second — about three times faster than the planet rotates, the researchers report in a forthcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters.

Comet Siding Spring's nucleus — a nugget of ice and rock measuring no more than half a kilometer (about 1/3 mile)-- is small, but the coma is expansive, stretching out a million kilometers (more than 600,000 miles) in every direction.

This unexpected, yet - to - be-named feature (colored mid - to dark brown in the exaggerated topography above) stretches 750 kilometers — about twice the length the Grand Canyon — from central Greenland (lower center of image) all the way to a fjord along the northwestern coast (top of image).

Testing both the microwave and laser systems will require gargantuan structures in space: thin - film condenser mirrors, solar panels and a microwave transmitter stretching for kilometers and weighing 10,000 metric tons, as well as a 100 - unit laser array of 5,000 metric tons that would be 10 kilometers long.

The researchers then trained the Very Long Baseline Array of radio telescopes — a line of dishes that stretches about 8000 kilometers, from Mauna Kea, Hawaii, to St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands — on the source of the gas, an object they called Source I (pronounced «source eye»).

On a drive home from the laboratory, researchers in Canada conducted a straightforward experiment: They traveled stretches of road with various speed limits (20, 50, 90, and 110 kilometers per hour) and tested how close a bird on or beside the road (like the magpie above) would allow the advancing car to come before fleeing its dangerous position — a measure called flight initiation distance.

All communication has been cut in hundreds of towns and villages stretched over thousands of kilometers in the typhoon's path, which makes it difficult to prepare aid shipments.

Increased ice flow in this region is particularly troubling, Khan said, because the northeast ice stream stretches more than 600 kilometers (about 373 miles) into the center of the ice sheet, where it connects with the heart of Greenland's ice reservoir.

However, in a column of mud from the North Pacific Gyre, an area 1000 kilometers north of Hawaii, the researchers detected oxygen stretching down to 28 meters because the microbial community was too sparse to consume it all.

In this case, the quake was caused when a 620 - mile - long (1,000 kilometers) stretch of the Nazca plate, an oceanic plate that forms a large swath of the Pacific Ocean floor, lurched deeper beneath the South American plate, producing the only 9.5 - magnitude quake on record.

McFaddin Beach is a 32 - kilometer long stretch of sandy beach in Jefferson County on the upper Texas Gulf coast, extending from High Island on the west to Dissertations & Theses from 2017.

Volvo plans to take the Pilot Assist features a few steps further in 2017, when it will test a fleet of 100 XC90s with enough autonomy to allow drivers to not pay attention to the road when traveling on a roughly 50 - kilometer (31 mile) stretch of highway in the automaker's home town of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Kuta is the most famous Tourist place in Bali and often used as an icon of Bali's tourism with the beautiful white sandy beach stretch 3 kilometer from Tuban to Seminyak Area.

This rugged stretch of coastline, 140 kilometers in length, stretches from Ucluelet north to Hesquiate Peninsula and includes the community of Ucluelet, Pacific Rim National Park and the community of Tofino, the put in point for our kayak tours of Clayoquot Sound.

Set in a hillside garden of 10 hectares and stretching across a gravity - defying peninsula set high above 2 river valleys, the Maya Ubud Resort and Spa in Ubud, Indonesia, features a lovely location and is within walking distance of Ubud and 1.1 miles (1.8 kilometers) from the Ubud Royal Palace.

Can you imagine being able to enjoy an unspoiled walk with your dog along the wild coast of Brittany in France, which stretches more than a thousand and two hundred kilometers and reveals a view of the sea and ragged coastal rock formations as far as you go?

The Coal Oil Point seep field (COP) in the Santa Barbara Channel offshore from Goleta, California, is a marine petroleum seep area of about three square kilometres, within the Offshore South Ellwood Oil Field and stretching from the coastline southward more than three kilometers (1.9 mi).

It is a river that stretches down for 8.2 kilometers, making it the largest underground river in the world, and recently named one of the 7 natural wonders of the world!

Dubai Marina is a beautiful part of Dubai and was created in 2003, it stretches over several kilometers and it one of the best places for nice walks in Dubai.

Its white - grey sands sit in a horseshoe - bay and stretch three kilometers to Centinela Point.

The Belize Barrier Reef belongs to the 900 kilometer long Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System in the Atlantic - Caribbean region, which stretches from Cancún to Honduras.

This beach is one of the vastest expanses of beach sand in all BC, the beach stretching out nearly a kilometer out of the sea when the tide is low.

The village of Santa Teresa, located on the jungle's edge, 4 hours from the city of Cusco, gives you several alternatives of adventure tourism and recreation, in a subtropical climate and an exuberant nature, as well as the option to easily get to Machu Picchu Pueblo, on a 30 minute stretch of road by bus and 10 kilometers by train.

Resting on a tranquil one - kilometer stretch of the pristine China Beach, near the ancient trading port of Hoi An in Vietnam, is a luxury resort and residential enclave known as The Nam Hai.

The beach stretches for 13 kilometers with several bathing spaces in Bohai Bay.

El Manantial is located on the Costa Grande in the state of Guerrero, Mexico fronting the Pacific Ocean near the middle of a beach that stretches for nine and a half miles (sixteen kilometers) and has different names for various stretches of the beach.

Beautiful Sokha Beach is a wide sandy beach covered in fine, silky, sand, stretching over a kilometer in length.

With a generous 1.5 kilometer stretch of soft white sand and consistent breaks reaching up to ten meters this is what surfing in paradise is all about.

The long beach stretches for roughly five kilometers from north to south and is well worth taking a morning stroll along to catch the rising sun, the peace and tranquility, and gasping views of mount Gunung Agung in the distance.

You can walk along the seven kilometer stretch of natural silica sand, swim in crystal clear water...

The largest space in Last Light, in accordance with 4A, was 200 × 100 meters and Exodus» sandboxes stretch to 2 sq. kilometers.

The film was shot in the Exclusion Zone, an area stretching 30 kilometers in all directions centered on the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, whose explosion in 1986 rendered the land uninhabitable.

Born in the town of Jamalpur but now residing in Dhaka, Chowdhury determined to walk the 181 - kilometer stretch of rail line that was once the only way of traveling between these two towns.

Note how the waters of the South Atlantic are darkened in patches stretching as much as 800 kilometers (500 miles) from south to northeast across the continental shelf.